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Re:If You Want a Job Tomorrow, Cultivate Your Career Today by danut on Friday November 06, 2009 @08:20PM (#927335)
I think people like Knuth, Torvalds, Carmack, etc. are the models for career development. Why would you assume that a strategy that didn't work for any of the biggest guys around would be better for you than theirs?
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Re:If You Want a Job Tomorrow, Cultivate Your Career Today by gnaritas on Friday November 06, 2009 @08:43PM (#927355)
Because in all likelihood, most people don't have what they have. Those guys are outliers, not the norm.
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Re:If You Want a Job Tomorrow, Cultivate Your Career Today by nostrademons on Friday November 06, 2009 @10:52PM (#927465)
I think that answer's a cop-out. Knuth, maybe. But Carmack and Torvalds had pretty unremarkable starts as programmers.
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